There has been some disappointment from console gamers over the fact that the console version of Battlefield 3 support 40 less players than the PC version: 24 vs. 64. DICE’s Patrick Bach, speaking to GameZone.de, said that they’d love to add 64 players to consoles, but that the hardware simply wouldn’t handle it, and that corners would have to be cut in order to support that many players.

all these people who are console only or console first just regurgitate what some Sony/MS suit says and claim they don't need to answer back at the WiiU and this generation will got to 2015, yet the consoles cannot even get a game ported in its entirety because it is technically impossible.